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    Implement a BMS map editor/viewer

    Costumer is interested in have a VS Code based BMS map editor, so they can do the same edits they are able to do on Eclipse. Costumer is moving to VS Code and needs the tool to have at least the same capabilities as Eclipse based IDE.
    8 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / VSCODE 11 Not under consideration

    Enhance GitUtilities class to add the ability to get author name and email information from Git for a given source file

    This would allow us to leverage the information for other build related activities and/or reporting where we might need to notify the individual who last updated the file.
    7 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 0 Submitted

    Change the displays commands for the server from Modify to Display

    The users that can execute displays commands are going to be able to see details of the RSED started task so metrics could be easily taken from the product without the necessity of a person with a higher power like modify commands in z/OS. These a...
    29 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 0 Submitted

    Add some coloring background to COBOL editor

    Some users asked to add some coloring into the background when opening a COBOL program when using the COBOL editor, like the isCOBOL eclipse editor (see attached screenshot). For example, for the column 1 to 6, it will be gray and green starting c...
    30 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Submitted

    Have a table showing all variables not used in a program

    Some of our developers ask for the possibility of adding an array or a list that would contain all the variables not used in a program. This would make it possible to know exactly what is not currently being used in a program and to be able to mor...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Submitted

    Ability to search for a character in a specific column

    Some of our developers ask for the possibility of having an easy method to search for a character in a specific column with Ctrl F and possibly make a Replace all only in a single column. The second one is useful in some language such as COBOL whe...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 0 Submitted
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    Double check to execute changes to a table when executing an update, delete or insert query in db2 for z/os

    It is necessary that when executing a query using the db2 for z/os tool that contains a statement of type INSERT UPDATE or DELETE, before the changes are applied to the table, a screen is added indicating how many records will be affected by the e...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 14 Future consideration

    New method IPropertyGroupContainer.addPropertyGroup(IPropertyGroup)

    As a developer of a plugin for IDz within my organization, I would like to have a method that allows me to add an instance of IPropertyGroup to a container. This method should be similar to the existing methods: - [createPropertyGroup(java.lang.St...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 5 Planned for future release

    We suggest that VTAM startup process continues even if one major node with error couldn't work properly.

    During an IPL, VTAM stopped the initialization when it found a node syntax error at ATCCONxx member. In this case, the error occurs on the last node that was with a comma by mistake. My suggestion is if there is a syntax error and you get the 'ERR...
    5 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 0 Submitted

    Improve handling of EBCDIC code page IBM-930 for remote preprocessor output member naming in IBM Z Open Editor

    a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb; } tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; } tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5; } When using the remote preprocessor feature in IBM Z Open Editor with source files encoded in IBM-930, an issue occurs wit...
    3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / VSCODE 0 Submitted

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